Article: “Men’s Rights” Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective

By Men's Activism News | Source | November 5, 2009

Kathryn Joyce of Double X, Slate's feminist-oriented section has this article about MRA's. She discounts a lot of research done, but gives RADAR credit for:

"...blocked passage of four federal domestic-violence bills, among them an expansion of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to international scope and a grant to support lawyers in pro bono domestic-violence work. Members of this coalition have gotten themselves onto drafting committees for VAWA’s 2011 reauthorization. Local groups in West Virginia and California have also had important successes, criminalizing false claims of domestic violence in custody cases, and winning rulings that women-only shelters are discriminatory."

Interesting that the feminists view this as a threat.

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Relatedly, submitted by user "fibtastic":
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I used to read Salon religiously, and I still love Heather Havrilesky, but this online fish wrap became so smug and angry during the Bush years that even I (no fan of Bush) couldn't take it anymore. I still check them out occasionally, when I need the angry lefty party line on anything, which led me to this story on the scary fringe dangers of the MRM. It's from their resident feminist rant organ, Broadsheet.

The story references this article over at Slate, in their in-house feminist organ, XX. Generally I find XX to be readable. Certainly far more open minded and less doctrinaire than Broadsheet, but not so in this instance. Note the pathetic tactic, used in both of these stories, of playing up the "fear" of men who organizing to oppose feminist writ. As if "scaring" a woman by opposing her politically is something any "real" man ought to be ashamed to do.